irony

I love Jennifer Lopez quoting Edith Head saying a dress should be loose enough to show you're a lady . . .

Meryl Streep

I think she's wearing the same dress (gold! sparkly!) that she did when she won for Sophie's Choice. Only this time she's wearing it backwards, right?

I would totally . . .

go gray if my hair looked as good as the Hugo cinematographer's hair looks.

Thumbs up

Yes. Yes, I did like the pastiche of films with Billy Crystal making cameos--esp. the one with George Clooney. Not as crazy about the singing going on right now, though.

Robin Roberts

. . . is apparently the tallest person in Hollywood.

Wherein I say something about the producer's hair

WOW.

Final thoughts

Please share yours. As always I love to hear.

And thank you, Academy, for ending with "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," which is the song I'm planning to have played at my own finale. My funeral, in other words. And I'm serious about that.

Anyway. It's been fun.

YES!!!!

I am happy The King's Speech won. V. happy. DANCE, COLIN FIRTH, DANCE!

Don't you think it's a little strange

. . . to have one nominee narrate all the other nominees? I loved THE KING'S SPEECH. But still.

Colin Firth

Oh, Colin Firth. I would only love you more if you gave in to those stirrings and danced your heart out for us. You were beyond marvelous in that jewel of a movie. Congratulations. Because I know you're reading this.

These women are all so . . . .

impossibly impossibly impossibly thin. They look like I could hold them like a bundle of sticks and break them over my knee. Which I can totally promise you no one has ever said about me.

Gwynneth

I have to confess that I kind of like Gwynneth in spite of GOOP (her newsletter wherein she advises us where to eat, where to travel, and what kind of purses to buy). I love how lean and gold she always looks. I think her voice is . . . fine. Don't seriously love it, though.

Please advise

I really have zero desire to see THE SOCIAL NETWORK (just got an award for film editing). Should I see it, though, as a form of mental/artistic exercise? Because you know how it is. You never want to exercise, but you feel glad that you did.

Oprah

One thing about Oprah--she sure has presence. It took a beat longer than was strictly comfortable to move aside for the winners of the documentary Oscar. For a minute there I thought she was going to give the speech for them. And you know what? It would have been a good one, too.

YES!

To autotunes! And to Wolf boys without shirts!

I have mixed feelings about Mandy's dress

Love the color. LOVE it. And I like that she also has roses cascading everywhere. But the bustier part? Hmmm. Not a fan. I don't like dresses that look like bras, even if the bras match the skirt.

Helen Mirren

. . . brings it year after year. She looks fantastic. And Russell Brand is a guilty pleasure always.

Mila

. . . is very pretty. I like the color of her drapey dress but the lacey things on her girls look like tattoos. And all I could think was how much that would hurt!

Okay

I almost DON'T want to see THE FIGHTER now after Melissa What's-her-name's really rambling speech. I always think winners should acknowledge their competition--especially since there were so many lovely performances this year. I was personally pulling for Haley Steinfeld. I truly loved TRUE GRIT.

Best Supporting Actress

Such lovely ladies. Such fab performances. And Helena is always beautiful no matter how crazy the hair.